By Karen Shih, May 24, 2024, Maryland Today.

As a teenager in China during the Cultural Revolution, Ming Wang Ph.D. ’86 faced a bleak future. The government had shut down all colleges and universities. Twenty million youths like him were being sent to rural labor camps. To try to save him from that fate, his parents pushed him to learn Chinese dance and musical instruments, hoping he could instead join a government dance troupe.

By NANCY FLORY Published on May 23, 2024, Stream.org

A new historical drama releasing this Memorial Day weekend is based on the true story of Dr. Ming Wang, following the arc of his life as a young Chinese boy born into poverty to becoming a world-renowned eye surgeon in the U.S. Set in 1970s China as well as years later in the U.S., Sight alternates between the story of Wang growing up poor and Wang as an eye surgeon, helping the less fortunate regain their vision. It will release May 24 to theaters nationwide. 

By Bill Newcott, The Saturday Evening Post

Sight dramatizes the true story of Dr. Ming Wang, who survived China’s Cultural Revolution, escaped to the United States, and became a world-renowned eye surgeon.